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Autore |
Griffiths Jennifer L. <1968-> |
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Titolo |
Traumatic possessions [[electronic resource] ] : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / / Jennifer L. Griffiths |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
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1-280-49015-2 |
9786613585387 |
0-8139-2895-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Human body in literature |
Memory in literature |
African American women in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. |
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